Improvement in mop-heads



1 SIMPSON.

. Mop-Heads.

N0.\50,797 Patented May 12,187.4.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOEo JOHN SIMPSON, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

.IMPROVEMENT IN MOP-HEADS.

Specification-forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,79?, dated May 1'2, 1874 application filed v Feicruary 23, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J oHN SIMPSON, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and Improved Mop-Head; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and complete description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making apart of the same.

Figure 1 is a side view of the mop-head. Fig. 2 is a vertical section. Fig. 3 is a top view. Fig. 4 is an edge view.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

The nature of this invention relates to a mop-head, the construction and operation of which are as follows: i

In the drawings, A represents a round wireframe, the two ends of which are rmly secured to the arms B of a nut, O. The nut is made of malleable iron. The arms B are cast iiat and somewhat thin, so that they can be easily bent around the ends of the wire frame, forming a socket, in which they are held, as

shown in Fig. 2. To the nut is tted a hollow screw, D, provided with finger-pieces E, whereby it is worked in the nut. F is a cross-head, having a hollow stem or socket, G, fitted loosely to the inside of the screw D, and on which it turns for moving the cross-head. The

socket is prevented from pulling lout from the screw by means -of the nibs a projecting' from the edge of the socket over onto the edge of the screw, shown as in Fig. 3.

The practical use of the "mop-h ead is' as follows: A handle, H, is inserted in the socket,

and secured therein by a pin driven into it through the ear O. The bar or cross-head is raised, as indicated by the dotted line d, by turning the screw. Into the space between the crosshead and bar of the frame are drawn cloths for the mop, as shown at I. The cloths thus hanging on the bar ofthe frame are there retained by the cross-head, which is now screwed down upon them, as shown in Fig. l. 

